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Skyscanner Travel Features & News

Get the best travel tips, travel advice and travel inspiration from Skyscanner. Every week, the Skyscanner team brings you the best hand-picked flight and hotel deals, travel giveaways, gadget reviews and hot holiday topics. Get inspired with our weekly selection of cheap flights, travel bargains and holiday offers, and choose from our huge selection of advice articles, from ‘How to find the cheapest flights’ to ‘The top 10 travel gadgets’, from ’10 tips for flying with kids’ to ‘Tips for a happier airport experience’.

Have your say and join thousands of fellow travellers with our holiday polls and surveys; win flights, guidebooks and other travel prizes, and get the latest news from the travel world. Read inspiring features about your favourite destinations, as well as places you’ve never heard of – and find out where’s hot, and where’s cool. And finally, we also bring you the latest quirky travel stories, from ‘Penguins on a plane’, to ‘New Zealand Villages for Sale’.

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Banned on board: 10 surprising items not allowed in your hand baggage

Don't get caught out. We reveal 10 things you'd be surprised you can't take on the plane in your hand luggage.
20 best music festivals 2013

Forget Reading. How about Hellfest? 20 of the biggest, best and the craziest music festivals in the world.
Advice on travelling whilst pregnant

How to fly and travel safely if you're expecting.
6 cheap flights to the sun this summer

Need a holiday? You can still pick up a cheap flight to the sun leaving in just a few weeks. Here are six suggestions.
Skyscanner boosts senior team in APAC; expands Singapore HQ

Andy Sleigh appointed to new role of General Manager, APAC.
Cabin crew reveal how to get an upgrade

Smartly dressed single men most likely to get a free upgrade, according to survey of airline staff.
Battle on the beach: men vs. women

Who calls the shots when it comes to travelling and holiday planning? Tell us for a chance to win £400!
RoboPlane set for the skies?

Science fiction set to become reality with ‘the plane that flies itself’. But would you fly on a plane without a pilot?
Ever travelled with pets?

Is your dog an international rover? Is your cat the purrfect holiday companion? Tell us and win £100!
Woman kicked off plane for singing Whitney Houston

Passenger forces emergency landing by singing chart-topping 1990s hit.
Airline Bike Fees: The Cost of Bringing Your Bike Onboard

Don’t be put off by airline bike baggage charges. We’ve got all the info you need to beat the big bike rip-off right here.
Hand or hold? Do you check in your luggage?

Tell us about your air travel luggage habits and you could win £100!
5 flights under £54

Book a June break with these five flights to European cities where you’ll have change from £54 for a round of ice creams.
5 places to party like it's the 1920s

Party Gatsby style. From New York to Paris, five places to live it up like it’s the roaring Twenties.
Music fans get the Eurovision party started on Skyscanner

Flight searches for Malmö increase by over 100% across Europe while Brits clock a less-enthusiastic 38%.
5 May getaways with flights for less than £50

Get away this May with our five fun ideas for a spring city break from Venice to Valencia, all with flights under £50 return.
What's your dream airport?

Tell us what your dream airport would look like and you could win £100!
10 great things to do in Chicago

From blues to views, baseball to beaches, art to science, shopping to… doughnuts, we take in 10 of Chicago’s top attractions.
10 of the world's most amazing festivals

Forget Hay-on-Wye. Ten of the craziest, most colourful festivals around the world... in glorious technicolour.
13 most annoying plane passengers

The most annoying people and the most awkward situations on planes... in cartoon form. Ever happened to you?